GROWTH AGRICULTURE
PROFILE DEVELOPMENT
ADA, CANYON COUNTIES AGRICULTURE PROFILE
ADA, CANYON COUNTIES DEVELOPMENT PROFILE
Loss of farmland, in acres
New residential units
ADA COUNTY:
MERIDIAN
232,879 2007: 191,477 1992:
41,402 Percent decrease: 21.6 Acres lost:
CANYON COUNTY:
391,050 2007: 260,247
921 2005: 3,314
1992:
1,823 2005: 1,185
2001:
130,803 Percent decrease: 50.3 Acres lost:
BOISE
2001:
627 2012: 1,041 2009:
237 2012: 776
NAMPA
1,384 2005: 1,383 2001:
82 2012: 417
2009:
2009:
Percent of new residential units in Ada, Canyon counties MERIDIAN 2001: 13.1 percent 2012: 31.6 percent
Number of farms ADA
BOISE 2001: 26 percent 2012: 23.6 percent
NAMPA 2001: 19.7 percent 2012: 12.7 percent
New non-residential permits in Ada, Canyon
2002: 1,420 2007: 1,323 CANYON 2002: 2,233 2007: 2,368
MERIDIAN 2001: 31 2005: 139 2009: 23 2012: 84
Market value of products sold ADA
BOISE 2001: 132 2005: 106 2009: 38 2012: 32
NAMPA 2001: 55 2005: 97 2009: 21 2012: 12
Percent of new non-residential permits
2002: $126.7 million 2007: $153 million n 29 percent from crop sales in 2007 n 71 percent from livestock sales in 2007 CANYON 2002: $268.9 million 2007: $420.9 million n 41 percent from crop sales in 2007 n 59 percent from livestock sales in 2007
MERIDIAN 2001: 9.5 percent 2012: 50.9 percent
BOISE 2001: 40.6 percent 2012: 19.4 percent NAMPA 2001: 16.9 percent 2012: 7.3 percent SOURCE: Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho 2012 Development Monitoring Report
Government payments to farms ADA 2002: $1.2 million 2007: $667,000 CANYON 2002: $2.4 million 2007: $1.7 million
SOURCE: USDA Census of Agriculture
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